Rousey, Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion, picked up a record four nominations this year. She was one of five fighters nominated for the prestigious Charles “Mask” Lewis Fighter of the Year award, where she was on the ballot with Daniel Cormier, Nate Diaz, Benson Henderson and Jon Jones. She’s also up for Female Fighter of the Year, Breakthrough Fighter of the Year, and Submission of the Year.

MMAjunkie.com earned a nomination in the Media Source of the Year category. Additionally, staff writers John Morgan and Ben Fowlkes are nominees in the MMA Journalist of the Year division. (Check out a full list of nominees.)

MMAjunkie.com will be at Friday’s ceremony and will report all the winners.

A total of 26 fighters got their chance to shine on Saturday as part of UFC 190 at Rio de Janeiro’s HSBC Arena. Now that UFC 190 is in the books, it’s time to commence MMAjunkie’s “Three Stars” ceremony.

The man known for cranking submissions to the point of injury added eye-gouging to his repertoire. But is the controversy of Rousimar Palhares too essential to his bizarre, awful appeal for his employers to take any meaningful action against him?